by Mary | Sep 15, 2017 | An Unremembered Life, DOC, Just for fun!, THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie, THE SPARROW on AMC
I’ve been in lock-down for the past three months: finishing the first complete draft of Unremembered Lives, doing the first five editing passes through the manuscript, sending it out for comments, re-editing, fixing errors, filling in, filling out,...
by Mary | Jun 14, 2017 | DOC, Natural History of a Novel, THE SPARROW, Unremembered Lives, Writer Tech
A week ago, I got to the final scene of my work-in-progress. It is complete, which is to say, it’s got a coherent plot with a beginning, a middle, and an end. My elevator pitch for Unremembered Lives is “a Romeo and Juliet story set against the backdrop of...
by Mary | May 3, 2017 | DOC, DOC on HBO, EPITAPH, THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie, THE SPARROW on AMC, Uncategorized, WYATT
Last summer, I signed an option with PalmStar Productions for a screen adaptation of Doc and Epitaph. So much time had gone by with no news, I was starting to wonder if they’d dropped the project, but yesterday an announcement appeared in a number of outlets, so...
by Mary | Aug 26, 2016 | THE SPARROW, Uncategorized
By now you’ve probably heard that astronomers have announced the existence of “Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri.” As in any scientific discovery, there are a lot of caveats and careful hedging of the announcement, but this appears...
by Mary | Sep 5, 2014 | Children of God, THE SPARROW
JESUITS IN SPACE AND IN THE VATICAN by Mary Doria Russell was originally published in September-October 2014 issue of Health Progress, the journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Old joke. A Franciscan, a Dominican and a Jesuit are...
by Mary | Mar 7, 2014 | THE SPARROW
The title of The Sparrow comes from Matthew 10:29. “Not even a sparrow can fall without your Father knowing it.” That text is often quoted to people in times of crisis. It’s meant to be comforting. God knows your troubles. God’s eye is on the...
